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CSIRO: Macrokey App - Credential verification for secure and trusted supply chains – licensing and commercialisation opportunity

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Opportunity for

  • Companies seeking to license or integrate secure digital credential solutions
  • Partners to trial or co-develop new applications across agriculture and beyond
  • Commercial collaborators to support scale-up and market deployment

Opportunity description

Industry challenge

Trust is fundamental to food supply chains in agriculture, where many stakeholders operate across diverse regulatory environments. Yet current identity and credential verification methods are rigid, centralised, and vulnerable. Documentation and credentials are often shared as simple scans, creating inefficiencies and exposing systems to cybercrime.

With rising risks around data privacy and compliance, the sector needs a new way to share and verify credentials – both in-person and online – without compromising sensitive data.

CSIRO has developed Macrokey, a secure mobile app that manages the users’ identity credentials on-device, and a Web-SDK to allow organisations’ websites to connect to the app.

This is done in a decentralised way for authentication, consent management, verifiable credentials and data sharing purposes.

Current opportunity

Macrokey is designed to create trust in-person and on the web by allowing users to collect and share proof of credentials without risk to compromise the supply chain, and the CSIRO is now seeking:

  • Companies to license and deploy Macrokey across agrifood and supply chain systems.
  • Partners to trial Macrokey in agricultural traceability, compliance or certification workflows to co-develop applications.
  • Commercial collaborators to scale the applications within and beyond agriculture.

Opportunity background

Macrokey is fully developed at CSIRO’s Data61 based on patented research by a team of highly experienced researchers within Data61’s Software and Computational Science Research Program along with a highly skilled commercialisation team.

Potential other applications

Macrokey could have broader use cases in:

  • Workforce onboarding and compliance (e.g. certifying and/or verifying farmworker qualifications or biosecurity training)
  • Export documentation and digital trade credentials
  • Food safety auditing and certification
  • Environmental or sustainability claims
  • Healthcare, logistics, finance, or government ID systems
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